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fans >> reporter: the moments that black college is creating its. best define professional sports are now replaced by the deafening silence of our new they hope to reduce the amount reality. for the game to go on, fans must of virus that is produced during stay home at least for now the pga tour announcing they'll the early stage of infection resume play in june but without crowds that line fairways and that make victories so >> reporter: new guidelines from the white house leaving the memorable. final say to governors on when >> the return to glory. >> reporter: even america's past and how to reopen their time is looking to a new future, economies but giving them a frame work in a three-phased major league baseball batting around the idea of league play approach >> we are not opening all at in arizona with players once, but one careful step at a isolating in hotels and no one in the stands. time >> reporter: the guidance does >> the life blood of major not set specific dates but requires each state to show a league baseball, its fans, will downward trend in cases over two weeks before they can enter be missing. >> reporter: it happened for a single game in 2015 during civil phase one. that's when venues like unrest in baltimore. restaurants and movie theaters with the nfl and nba also in can open with strict physical contact with the white house, distancing closed schools should remain closed until a state graduates florida's governor is calling for nascar to get back on track to phase two >> you have to pass a hurdle at least on tv the nhl commissioner says hockey

there are multiple check points of safety there. games during a pandemic would >> health officials stress we'll need a new sound need to keep up hand washing, >> at minimum we're going to safe distancing and face have to pump sound into the coverings and the guidance puts arena because hockey in a quiet, responsibility on states to have you know, environment, the two sufficient testingand screenin for people who might be carriers don't go hand in hand. but don't show symptoms to stay ahead of a new outbreak. >> reporter: here in los angeles the mayor says stadiums like >> this is unchartered water this one would be empty until there may be set backs that we next year. have to pull back and go fans would likely have a view forward. >> the urgency of getting people like they've never had before. back to work >> so surreal to think that could be the reality when it more than 5 million americans comes to sports but there is filed new jobless claims last such a void i think now i think so many people are ready to have week in dallas, hundreds in need lined up outside a food bank >> i don't think we've seen the anything come back >> quite literally a vast and tip of the iceberg yet. empty stadium. >> at the same time the small >> some athletes are taking business administration saying practicing at home better than the paycheck protection program others the throw sailed away from the is out of money and can't take net and shattered a window in any more applications. more funding for small his house. at least it was his house. businesses without including

money for hospitals and state and local governments. i'm david gura in washington, nbc news. >> i'm frances rivera. law enfoement offirc >> we can't emphasize enough the ce ♪ ♪ magnitude the crisis within this crisis the devastating loss growing at this country's nursing homes don't feel like wearing pants? okay who drank all the milk? leaving thousands heart broken enjoy the great taste of dunkin' at home. and furious. >> reporter: a horrific inside this new jersey nursing home >> the staff was overwhelmed by the number of bodies becoming deceased >> at least 17 bodies likely victims of covid-19. >> i'm outraged that bodies were allowed to pile up in a makeshift morgue at the facility >> we've been watching the nursing home because many ways they're ground zero for this situation. >> reporter: the federal government and several states don't track nursing home residents who have died from the virus. data from 29 states shows coronavirus deaths in long-term

care facilities have more than doubled in the last week, more than 5,600 victims many who have lost loved ones frustrated with an overall lack of information >> i want more transparency. good morning. your headlines right now at i want people to all know their 4:30. and hope this morning the fight against coronavirus. part in this and i want him there are reports that drug company gilead is making major back >> reporter: rural communities progress in its treatment for are also becoming a breeding covid-19. ground for the illness university of chicago's phase the rate of covid-19 infections three drug trial found most of its 125 patent patients in a in south dakota nearly tripling in just one week including 700 trial had actual rapid recoveries in fever and cases linked to this meat respiratory symptoms and discharged in less than a week. processing plant the front line and the fight against the outbreak shifted as gilead intends to enroll 4,000 people in its trial. the virus continues to spread. meantime, a look at the bay area coronavirus cases. >> now to disturbing new signs sonoma county added nine new that coronavirus can have infections yesterday bringing harmful effects on the body the total to beyond the loungs in some cases impacting the brain. >> reporter: in march while covid patients suffering from

lung failure filled icus in new york city doctors at mount sinai noticed an alarming increase in strokes. >> we found an increase coming into the health system. >> reporter: 45 there a four-week period, nearly triple the normal number. half of the patients had covid and were on average 12 years younger than typical stroke victims. >> how surprising is that? >> it was very surprising. everybody on the team noticed it and said there has to be a correlation with covid and stroke. >> reporter: there a still so many unanswered questions about this debilitating virus, among them, what is it doing to the brain? a limited study of 214 covid patients in china found more than a third suffered neurological symptoms, the most common loss of taste and smell,

dizziness, headaches and in rare instances, strokes >> i can't tell you how wonderful my father was. >> reporter: nicole, a nurse says alarm bells went off when she visited her 82-year-old usually active dad and he seemed almost sedated >> it was like he was confused he just wasn't in there. his eyes were just blank. >> reporter: he was diagnosed with covid within days he passed away it's unclear if he had a stroke. now his brain is part of a study looking at neurological damage from the virus >> he would have wanted to help whoever he could help. >> reporter: they've started giving blood thinners to some virus patients to prevent strokes. >> we had a patient who was 33 years old and previously healthy and she developed symptoms of arm weakness and numbness and she stayed at home for over a day with the symptoms before calling 911. >> because she waited she will have to deal with some long-term

complications. >> the young woman didn't want to catch the virus in the er she didn't realize that she already had it nbc news, new york >> there are a lot of theories about where the coronavirus came from and now the u.s. is chasing its roots as the pandemic continues. the u.s. intelligence community says investigating the vie si rhus' orr again and if it emerged from a chinese laboratory we turn to london, what do we know so far? >> good morning. that's right the u.s. intelligence community is examining the coronavirus accidentally came out of a chinese research lab studying disease in bats we now that scientists at a military research facility in wuhan, the city where all this virus first came out from were doing research in covid-19 we also know from u.s. state department cables that u.s. officials were worried about bio

security at the wuhan institute as far back as 2018. u.s. spy agencies have ruled out one theory that this was possibly man made. they're looking into the possibilities that the virus was accidentally contracted by an employee at a lab who then left the lab with the virus, spreading it across wuhan and then around the globe. now, secretary of defense mark es per said this is a case the u.s. is following very closely but he says that the evidence that they have gathered so far is inconclusive but they're still working on it. the chinese is denying this. they're saying this did not emerge from a lab in china they keep quote the head of the world health organization saying there is no evidence for this but there has been a anything bn

handling the coronavirus let's look ahead to the weekend and some snow on the way for some here's bill karins good morning >> good morning. great to see you guys and there's people in the ohio valley, they had enough. they had snow two and three times this week alone. let's get to the map and show you what we're dealing with. areas are going to be shoveling in iowa and snow coming down in chicago. a little bit detroit and along the new york/pennsylvania border and tonight some areas will get some snow. not too bad in the southeast a few storms in san antonio. the big story as we go throughout the weekend is going to be what happens in the southeast. we have another severe outbreak possible, maybe another tornado outbreak possible r oufot will t

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